Mercedes-Benz EQC is Sold Out for 2019

They better ramp up production big time in 2020, this is Mercedes-Benz not Tesla.

2 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

They better ramp up production big time in 2020, this is Mercedes-Benz not Tesla.

I think they'd be just fine as long as they have better quality control than Tesla, which they do. 

I wonder if the US will get the Bremen cars or the Chinese cars.

I wonder what EV doubters will say about this piece of info from MB.

Depends on how many we're talking about. If it's anything like past MB EV efforts, might only be 500 units.
Might be telling that they know it's 'sold out' but didn't release the number.

40 minutes ago, balthazar said:

Depends on how many we're talking about. If it's anything like past MB EV efforts, might only be 500 units.
Might be telling that they know it's 'sold out' but didn't release the number.

 

Yeah, I thought that was kinda odd... but I doubt it's only 500 units if they're spinning up a whole production line for global distribution.

I would be more excited about this statement from MB if they actually released the actual sales data to better understand.

A total of fifteen cars were allocated, specifically for this story.

Probably the German built ones will come to USA as anything Mercedes builds in China is sold in that region.  They are currently expanding the Alabama plant and building a battery factory next to it so I would expect once that is done these EQC’s and others will be sourced from there.

A slow ramp up in 2019 is fine to get quality right, after that they need to get it rolling.  As I said they aren’t Tesla with one factory.  The new S-class factory will open in 2020, they will make EV’s there also freeing up Sindelfingen for E-classes and the like.

3 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

Sindelfingen

...allergies?  Catching cold?

7 minutes ago, ocnblu said:

...allergies?  Catching cold?

I think he meant that more Taxis will be made then!